LOL: DC police chief denounces 'cowardly' iPhone users monitoring police ...MacDailyNews
Drop an iPhone and crack its screen, Apple will fix it for $200
alerting you to the police, Trapster, was now actually very good in a
trip I took this last weekend. I downloaded the application months ago
and thought it was rather crappy but never got around to deleting it.
It has been updated several times automatically on my iPhone.
I opened it Firday morning and was I surprised as it called out in
clear speech approaching 'speed traps', red light cameras, and a host
of other things related to possible police encounters. Even with the
app turned off I still got notifications on the screen just like an
incoming call if anything new was spotted in the area I was driving
in.
A NEAT USE OF PUSH!
TIP APP LIMIT REMOVED
BTW I found out that under OS 3.0 I can now have hundreds and hundreds
of applications always on my iPhone, the apparent limit of only 180
applications only applies to visible icons you can have on the spring
board. Any app on the iPhone can be found, even if not visible using
the simple search feature and a few key-presses. If you have a 32 GB
iPhone you can now really load that sucker up from the 60,000 app
iPhone app store!
Anyway look a this story of one top cop who is not amused at what the
iPhone community now has in police defeating applications.
Monday July 13, 2009
Police Chief Says iPhone Users Are Cowards
If you use your iPhone to avoid speed traps and red light cameras, you
are a coward. How dare you deprive the city/state/government of the
billions they collect every year from these "life saving" devices. You
should be ashamed.
"I think that's the whole point of this program," she told The
Examiner. "It's designed to circumvent law enforcement -- law
enforcement that is designed specifically to save lives." Lanier said
the technology is a "cowardly tactic."
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D.C. police chief denounces ‘cowardly’ iPhone users for monitoring
speed traps
Monday, July 13, 2009 - 11:41 AM EDT
"Area drivers looking to outwit police speed traps and traffic cameras
are using an iPhone application and other global positioning system
devices that pinpoint the location of the cameras," Hayley Peterson
reports for The Washington Examiner.
MacDailyNews Note: On such app currently resides at #4 in Apple's App
Store's "Travel" section's list of top free apps: Trapster.
Peterson continues, "That has irked D.C. police chief Cathy Lanier,
who promised her officers would pick up their game to counteract the
devices, which can also help drivers dodge sobriety checkpoints."
"The new technology streams to iPhones and global positioning system
devices, sounding off an alarm as drivers approach speed or red-light
cameras," Peterson reports. "Lanier said the technology is a 'cowardly
tactic' and 'people who overly rely on those and break the law anyway
are going to get caught' in one way or another."
Peterson reports, "The greater D.C. area has 290 red-light and speed
cameras -- comprising nearly 10 percent of all traffic cameras in the
U.S., according to estimates by a camera-tracking database called the
POI Factory... Photo radar tickets generated nearly $1 billion in
revenues for D.C. during fiscal years 2005 to 2008."
Larry
<vic.h...@gmail.com> wrote in news:978b3e2d-f792-4084-8275-
72fef4...@m18g2000vbi.googlegroups.com:
> I discovered by accident that a real time iPhone application for
> alerting you to the police, Trapster, was now actually very good in a
> trip I took this last weekend. I downloaded the application months ago
> and thought it was rather crappy but never got around to deleting it.
> It has been updated several times automatically on my iPhone.
>
>
http://www.foxytag.com/en/presentation.html
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Larry
Noone will be safe until the last lawyer has been strangled by the entrails
of the last cleric.
John Doe
> If you use your iPhone to avoid speed traps and red light
> cameras, you are a coward. How dare you deprive the
> city/state/government of the billions they collect every year
> from these "life saving" devices. You should be ashamed.
I would be ashamed, but only at gunpoint.
Another way of looking at it... If the red light cameras are
intended to make drivers stop at red lights, they should think of
the iPhone as an enforcement device.
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David Moyer
> http://www.foxytag.com/en/presentation.html
that seems like the waffle house version...
trapster is more complete...
John Blutarsky
@news.qwest.net:
Neither is necessary if you practiced just a little societal courtesy and
obeyed traffic laws.